Gary,
One way to clean up and simplify your alert rules is to use a (host group)
macro, as in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/01/msg00287.html (but see also
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/01/msg00123.html for a tighter syntax) so
long as these macros can run across lines...
Sebastian
From: Gary Baluha [mailto:user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 17 March 2008 17:47
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Nesting rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg
That was one thought I had, but the current version of Hobbit doesn't
display the group alerting under the "info" column. But I do currently have
some group alerts set up. I'm just looking at ways to clean up and simplify
the alert rules.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Patrick Nixon <user-1f2406f832af@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Did you look into maybe making a host group out of them?
I forget the hobbit term for them of course, but I know you can do
groups, which is a regex or simple declaration.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Gary Baluha <user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Is it possible to nest rules in hobbit-alerts.cfg? For example, can I do
something like this (indenting provided for readability):
PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
MAIL user-662c32254ab8@xymon.invalid
HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
MAIL user-2a94730ebdd3@xymon.invalid
Our alerting rules are starting to get kind of complex, and nesting alert
rules as above would make things easier. I know I could do something
like:
PAGE=hostPageA NOTICE RECOVERED
MAIL user-662c32254ab8@xymon.invalid HOST=hostA,hostB,hostC
MAIL user-2a94730ebdd3@xymon.invalid HOST=%(hostD[0-9])
But some of the HOST= lists are very long (i.e. wrap across multiple
lines),
so the above 2nd example would look a lot uglier than it does in this post
(which was simplified for readability). If nesting rules won't work, I
wonder how much effort would be involved in adding this feature.